TV review: Lucan

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The disappearance of the gambling peer continues to fascinate: but is it entertainment?

Lucan ITV ****

Lord Lucan’s daughter Camilla Bingham QC has said of ITV’s two-part Lucan that “no right-thinking person could regard it as entertainment”. If my father had attempted to murder my mother and killed my nanny, I would not find it entertainment either. Yet entertaining is exactly what Lucan will have proved for others. Even, in a horrible way, I am afraid the clubbing to death of Sandra Rivett was entertaining, such was the sweaty, incompetent, omega-male panic conveyed by Rory Kinnear in the title role — his irreducibly domestic attempts to clean the murder weapon in the bathroom basin,